Holgado, Ticky
Show Business
Age 59
June 24, 1944 - January 22, 2004
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Ticky Holgado was a French character actor known for his short stature, distinctive face and heavy Southern accent. Holgado's original vocation was to be a musician. After playing in a band as a teenager, he found work in the Fren...
Hayworth, Rita
Show Business
Age 68
October 17, 1918 - May 14, 1987
Holy Cross Cemetery / Culver City / California / USA / North America
Rita Hayworth (Margarita Carmen Cansino 1918-1987) was a film actress and dancer who performed publicly for the first time at the age of six with her father, dancer Eduardo Cansino, Sr. By the age of 8 she was featured in her firs...
Marx, Groucho
Show Business
Age 86
October 2, 1890 - August 19, 1977
Eden Park Memorial Cemetery / Mission Hills / California / USA / North America
Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx was best known as a master of quick wit and widely considered one of the best comedians of the modern era. His rapid-fire, often impromptu delivery of innuendo-laden patter earned him many admirers and ...
Churchill, Winston
World Leaders
Age 90
November 30, 1874 - January 24, 1965
St Martin's Church / Bladon, Woodstock OX20 1RS / England / United Kingdom / Europe
Winston Churchill was a British statesman, soldier, writer, and orator who played a central role in 20th-century world history. Born in 1874, he began his career as an army officer and war correspondent before entering Parliament ...
Acuff, Roy
Music
Age 89
September 15, 1903 - November 23, 1992
Spring Hill Cemetery / Nashville / Tennessee / USA / North America
Roy Acuff was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter known as the "King of Country Music". Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedown" format to the singer-based format t...
Higelin, Jacques
Music
Age 77
October 18, 1940 - April 6, 2018
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Jacques Higelin (1940–2018) was a pioneering French singer-songwriter and performer who helped reshape French popular music by blending chanson, rock, jazz, and theatrical performance. He began his career in the 1960s as an acto...
Balzac, Honoré de
Writers and Poets
Age 51
May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) was one of the most influential writers of 19th-century French literature and a central figure in the development of literary realism. After initially studying law and briefly working in publishing ...
Olivier, Laurence
Show Business
Age 82
May 22, 1907 - July 11, 1989
Westminster Abbey / London SW1P 3PA / England / UK / Europe
Laurence Olivier was one of the most influential actors, directors and producer of the 20th century, renowned for his commanding Shakespearean performances on stage and screen. Born in 1907, he rose to prominence in British theatr...
Lewis, C. S.
Writers and Poets
Age 64
November 29, 1898 - November, 22 1963
Holy Trinity Church / Headington Quarry / Oxford, OX3 8NU, England / United Kingdom / Europe
C. S. Lewis was a British author, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford (1925–1954), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1954–1963). He is...
Bolin, Tommy
Music
Age 25
August 1, 1951 - December 4, 1976
Calvary Cemetery / Sioux City / Iowa / USA / North America
Tommy Bolin was an American rock guitarist and songwriter who played with Zephyr (from 1969 to 1971), the James Gang (from 1973 to 1974) and Deep Purple (from 1975 to 1976), in addition to maintaining a career as a solo artist and...
Django, Reinhardt
Music
Age 43
January 23, 1910 - May 16, 1953
Cimetière de Samois-sur-Seine / Samois-sur-Seine / Seine-et-Marne / France / Europe
Django Reinhardt was a pioneering Belgian-born Romani guitarist and composer who became one of the most influential figures in European jazz. After a caravan fire in 1928 severely injured his left hand—leaving two fingers partia...
Sovine, Red
Music
Age 62
July 7, 1917 - April 4, 1980
Woodlawn Memorial Park / Nashville / Tennessee / USA / North America
Red Sovine was an American country music singer and songwriter associated with country western truck-and-trailer tradegy ballads, particularly those recited as narratives but set to music. A minor star in country western circles, ...
Hodges, Johnny
Music
Age 62
July 25, 1907 - May 11, 1970
Flushing Cemetery / Flushing, Queens / New York / USA / North America
Johnny Hodges was one of the most influential alto saxophonists in jazz history and is best known for his long association with Duke Ellington. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1907 and raised in nearby Boston, Hodges began as ...
Lennon, Julia
The Odd and the Interesting
Age 44
March 12, 1914 - July 15, 1958
Allerton Cemetery Liverpool UK / Allerton, Liverpool L19 5NF / United Kingdom / Europe
Julia Lennon was the mother of English musician John Lennon, who was born during her marriage to Alfred Lennon. After complaints to Liverpool's Social Services by her eldest sister Mimi Smith (née Stanley), she surrendered the ca...
Foley, Red
Music
Age 58
June 17, 1910 - September 19, 1968
Woodlawn Memorial Park / Nashville / Tennessee / USA / North America
Red Foley was a hugely influential figure in early country music, whose career spanned from the 1930s through the 1960s. Rising to fame through radio programs like the National Barn Dance and the Grand Ole Opry, he became known fo...